The study tracked around 800 developers, comparing their output with and without GitHub’s Copilot coding assistant over three-month periods. Surprisingly, when measuring key metrics like pull request cycle time and throughput, Uplevel found no meaningful improvements for those using Copilot.
I use it sometimes to ask whether there’s an API for whatever I need to do. But it lies.
I had a non-technical manager (in 2012!) come to me and tell me he had just read an article about something called an API and he wanted us (a software development company) to start using them. I told him I would research it lol and fortunately he quickly moved on to other varieties of uselessness. Eventually he was fired for wearing a bowtie to the funeral of the company’s founder who famously wore a bowtie. I wish this story were not true.